The holiday classic, continuing at Keller Auditorium through Christmas Eve, is a smooth and sprightly spectacle, one of OBT’s best renditions of the Balanchine ballet.
The Portland company’s holiday showcase charms with seven short-and-sweet, fresh new dances by established and emerging choreographers connected to BodyVox.
The 91-year-old also wrote a novel, “The Fort Showalter Blues,” based on his experience in the Army.
Festive events include opportunities for book shopping, The Moth Mainstage, and a story time for pups.
The Linfield University professor has written poetry, novels, essays, and memoir. “Working with language and story somehow gets me back into the way I need to be,” he says.
At Portland’s Performance Works NW, the Seattle choreography duo of Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson uses masks, flashes of skin, a ghostly sheet, and comedy to deliver a dreamlike abstraction of society’s values.
More than 100 writers and interviewers will talk about books — fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and books for children and young readers — during the Nov. 2 festival.
Review: The ballet company’s season opener, first produced in New Zealand in 2019, digs deep into the story’s long history, complete with demon rabbits and a delicious little cottage.
An air of mystery, intrigue, and languid sensuality runs through the 14 linked essays by the celebrated Portland writer.
The month’s literary readings range from ghostly howls to journeys with an imaginary dog, a novitiate nun in the flower power ’60s, poetry, memoirs, discovering new places, and more.
The Portland author of five books, including “The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon,” wrote about race, sexual identity, and making a family of choice.
The Portland-born film festival will feature 27 films over three evenings of diverse screenings at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater.
PICA’s TBA:24 festival, spreading across the city Sept. 5-22, boasts a busy lineup including Linda K. Johnson’s “PASTfuture,” presented in part by her ongoing “Mycelium Dreams” project.
An array of September readings and book gatherings around Oregon ushers in fall reading season.
The Bend-based author, poet, educator, and nonprofit founder begins her term immediately, succeeding Anis Mojgani.
Other literary events include appearances by authors of books on whitewater canoeing in Alaska, Eugene’s first organic vegetarian restaurant, and American explorers.
Other summer events include poetry readings, a memoir by the scion of a gangster family, and a 4th of July book sale in Cannon Beach.
On the occasion of the publication of his 12th book, the Portland poet discusses writing with joy, living in the moment, and poems as acts of service.
Other June events include two appearances by New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, a memoir workshop led by Leanne Grabel, and readings by Oregon author Victor Lodato in Bend, Hood River and Sunriver.
Choreographers Marissa Rae Niederhauser and Ashley A. Friend premiere pieces in which movement intuition and nuance guide the work.
Other bookish events include readings from and release of Write Around Portland’s 62nd anthology, readings by Oregon Literary Fellows, and an opportunity to stargaze in Bend.
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The Australian dance company closed White Bird’s season with a bold performance, as the powerful and confident dancers brilliantly executed Rafael Bonachela’s technically demanding choreography.
The premiere of Dani Rowe’s chorus girl love story joins works by choreographers Ben Stevenson and Yue Yin for a diverse night of classical ballet and modern and theatrical dance.
Other winners during Monday’s Literary Arts event included Waka T. Brown for young adult literature and poet Daniela Naomi Molnar.
Poets aplenty are on the literary calendar this month, as well as journalist Elizabeth Mehren and the Terroir Creative Writing Festival in Newberg.
The founder of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the Writing Ranch will receive the Holbrook award during the April 8 Oregon Book Awards ceremony.
The Clackamas-based historian’s new book documents the work of writers from 1800 to the present to help readers expand their understanding of the Pacific Northwest.
The Keller Auditorium audience was repeatedly brought to their feet as the Ailey company dancers dazzled with exhilarating performances of both contemporary choreography and Ailey’s own iconic “Revelations.”
Presented at the 2024 Portland Jazz Festival, SKC’s latest world premiere promised to transcend artistic boundaries with innovations that take dance and sound in a new dimension, though delivered a more puzzling traditional concert dance experience.
Other literary events this month include readings by nine writers at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport and a celebration of small presses.
Other bookish events this month include jazz bassist Chuck Israels on his musical memoir, Doran Larson’s look at prisons from the inside, and Hamilton Nolan on the labor movement.
A new year brings a Fishtrap workshop, as well as authors talking about philanthropy, Higgs boson, and becoming a better cook. And chickens.
Our LitWatch columnist looks back on a year of good reading, writing, and talking about books.
The recently appointed artistic director brings a new sense of energy and magic to the familiar holiday classic.
Suggestions range from Brian Doyle’s “Mink River” and a collection of speeches by former Gov. Barbara Roberts to picture books and poetry.
Settle into winter with a holiday book fair, a new cookbook from a Northwest Jewish kitchen, an author appearance by Henry Winkler, and a solstice story time.
Amy Leona Havin sits down afterwards with the company’s founder and artistic director to discuss SKC’s merger with Conduit and what’s next for the contemporary dance company.
Performed in the round, ‘Radioactive Practice’ draws on street dance, contemporary African forms, and martial arts to upend expectations of established dance forms.
Many venues were near or at capacity as book-lovers flooded the South Park Blocks to listen to more than 100 speakers. And to buy books.
The three poets reflect on their relationship to poetry, offer reading lists, and advise fellow poets to persist, revise, and follow their curiosities.
The timeless Tchaikovsky tale of Odette, Odile, and Siegfried springs to life under the direction of Christopher Stowell, complemented by the magical stage sets of Filipo Sanjust and the costumes of Sandra Woodall with Mark Zappone.
The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.
During their single night performance at White Bird, the celebrated dance company presented new collaborations and revisited classic works stretching back to its founding in 1971.
In this long-form performance, the Performance Works NW artistic director explores what is possible in a world of fluctuating personal, material, political, and artistic contingencies, as she wanders through a variety of movement scores, choreographies, tasks, guest artists, texts, songs, and sound compositions.
Warm up with M.R. O’Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.
The Nov. 4 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is slated to feature events with more than 100 Oregon and national authors.
Authors appearing around the state include Ann Patchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Casey Parks, Paulann Petersen, and others with names not beginning with P.
The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel “Mala Noche” was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland’s poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
Readings in August include the authors of books about a 2,500-mile bike ride, Portland’s Forest Park, and comedian Ernie Kovacs.
Everlasting summer brings readings by surfing legend Gerry Lopez and the authors of a new book celebrating Steely Dan.
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